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Duration: 65’ 14”
Narrated by Christopher Nupen
Year of production: 1987
A retrospective view of twenty years in the life of this Soviet-born master pianist who has lived in the West since 1963.
We have been producing films and television programmes with Vladimir Ashkenazy since 1966 and this one spans the entire period up to 1987. It is drawn from our archives and combines some of the best sequences from our past films with material that has not been seen before and new sequences shot especially for this film.
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It also traces the development of Ashkenazy's conducting career and includes sequences from our Respighi and Sibelius films in which he conducts the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. On 1 January 1987, Ashkenazy was appointed Music Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London: an appointment, which set the seal on his international conducting career.
At the piano Ashkenazy plays music by Beethoven, Mozart, Cesar Franck (with Itzhak Perlman), Stravinsky (with Daniel Barenboim), Respighi and Mussorgski.
The early sequences were recorded in mono, but this film is produced with a stereo/mono compatible sound track in which most of the sound is true stereo.
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